Music

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have discovered the chemical detection abilities of an African musical instrument called a mbira. The instrument uses metal times connected to a wooden sounding board which produce a musical tone when plucked. The research has discovered that using a hallow U-shaped tine filled with different liquids produce notes of different frequencies. These differences can be used to detect different liquid samples such as sodium chloride or non-toxic glycerol.

NPR's Tiny Desk on YouTube is amazing for discovering great music and recently the music diversity and quality has been top notch, from Yo-Yo Ma to Dermot Kennedy. This week though, Tiny Desk published their video of Tech N9ne featuring Krizz Kaliko. The video starts off great and escalates to amazing by the last track, definitely worth watching the full video!

This week I attended the ISSTA Limerick Sound Festival 2018 in The Irish World Academy in The University of Limerick. The day centered around 3 fantastic concerts with workshops, soundwalks and discussions between them. Checkout my photos from the festival here.

This week NAWR had the pleasure of realising Philip Corner's Piano Activites piece with Volcano Theatre in Swansea. Volcano had an old piano that had succumbed to wood worm and was due to be thrown away. Instead, the colloboration between Volcano and NAWR resulted in the piano giving its final public performance on Swansea High Street! Check out the rest of the photos of the piano's destruction here.

Nandos Music Exchange is a project that brings artists from all over the world to the UK to collaborate and create music. Now in its fourth year, the project has realeased the playlist of this year's music.